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...years with the big Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, Lawyer Douglas learned all that he cared to know about the current state of corporate law. He returned to Columbia to teach, having gained little respect and no love for Wall Street law or finance. Today he can accept a luncheon invitation from Morgan Partner George Whitney without a twitter. When Joe Kennedy drafted him to conduct SEC's investigation of protective committees, Mr. Douglas was occupying the well-upholstered chair of a Sterling Professorship at the Yale Law School. Having since ploughed through the mire...
Juilliard who left $14,000,000 to music. The Metropolitan's board chairman, Paul Drennan Cravath, is a director of the Juilliard School of Music, as is Cornelius N. Bliss, chairman of the Metropolian's executive committee. Now the Opera must listen to three more Juilliard men: President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music, Dean Ernest Hutchinson, Lawyer John Morris Perry. Besides there is a new "management committee" to advise Edward Johnson. Its members: John Erskine, Allen Wardwell, Cornelius Bliss and Soprano Bori. Commenting on the Metropolitan situation in general, wise old William J. Henderson...
...claim for services put in by the Vanderlip debenture holders' committee was reduced to $7,500 because Frank A. Vanderlip and Lawrence Stern traded profitably in Paramount securities during the reorganization period. Claims brought by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., sponsors of many Paramount issues, and by Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, attorneys for the banking house, were disallowed because Kuhn, Loeb withdrew from the proceedings when the trustees in bankruptcy were planning to sue Paramount directors and Kuhn, Loeb partners...
...Last week a group of New York businessmen formed a new company. Among the incorporators were: Winthrop W Aldrich, Paul D, Cravath, Matthew Woll, Nelson A. Rockefeller, David Sarnoff, Jackson E. Reynolds, Ogden L. Mills, Owen D. Young, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Walter C. Teagle, Myron C. Taylor, Felix M. Warburg, Clarence H. Mackay, Newcomb Carlton, Percy S. Straus, Clarence M, Woolley, Frederick H. Ecker, Edward S. Harkness, Joseph P. Day, F. Trubee Davison, George Le Boutillier, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Henry S. Morgan, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Walter P. Chrysler, James G. Blaine, Charles Hayden, Charles E, Hughes Jr., Harry Harkness...
...three sides by operatic-looking mountains. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and there on a lake outside the town Max Reinhardt owns a baroque castle, where he long ago began giving sumptuous parties for his troupe and for such visitors as Arturo Toscanini, Feodor Chaliapin, Paul Drennan Cravath, Greta Garbo, Edward of Wales...